Generalized anxiety disorder & worrying : a comprehensive handbook for clinicians and researchers

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Worry, Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), and their importance -- Assessing worry: an overview -- Perceptions of threat -- Transdiagnostic view on worrying and other negative mental content -- Worry and other mental health problems -- Learning science and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) -- Cognitive‐behavioral models of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD): toward a synthesis -- Structural and functional neuroanatomy of Generalized Anxiety Disorder -- Cultural perspectives in understanding, treating, and studying: worry and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) -- Cognitive‐behavioral therapy (CBT) for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) -- Interpersonal and Emotion‐Focused Therapy (I/EP) for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) -- Acceptance‐based behavioral therapies for Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) -- Short‐term psychodynamic therapy of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) -- Pharmacological treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) -- Internet and computer‐based treatments of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) -- Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) In Children And Adolescents -- The road ahead: what research paths should be taken in order to improve future treatments?

"Everyone worries. Some people worry occasionally or transitorily, while others worry frequently or uncontrollably. The ubiquity of worry makes its study far-reaching, important, and exciting. Worry - like most concepts in mental health nomenclature - is not a technical term, however, but rather stems from everyday language's attempt to describe inner-psychic experiences. This, in turn, makes the study of worry difficult and sometimes messy. For example, if you simply ask a person to worry, will this instruction result in the same type of worry that is occurs naturally? Worrying at night, when trying to fall asleep is probably one of the most common situation in which people worry. However, why do we worry some nights and not others ? Is it really simply a question of triggers being responsible for a worry episode to start? Interestingly, in some treatments, asking individuals to worry is used therapeutically. This often results in the new experience that when one actively worries, it is actually less anxiety provoking and much less associated with a feeling of losing control than when worrying occurs spontaneously (compare Gerlach & Stevens, 2014)"-- Provided by publisher.

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